Politicians who dominate Somali politics were once members of religious movements. Currently, people talk more about harm inflicted by Al-shabaab; their violations are well-known. What is less known is the political harm wrought by politically religious politicians who joined national politics in 2009.
Politically religious politicians believed that the gun was the means to attaining their political goals. Having realised that their political programme is unpalatable to many Somalis, they have resolved to capture the state, some of them managed (have been helped ) to capture the central government, some captured federal member state governments.
Some of the politically religious politicians labelled the former transitional government “apostate” whose members should be eliminated for apostasy.
There has emerged a shocking phenomenon in which politically religious politicians force people to become alienated from religion, because victims of embezzlement might fail to distinguish between the religion politician and the Quran.
In the Quran Allah enjoins the clergy to refrain from preaching what they do not practise : “Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget (To practise it) yourselves, and yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand? 2:44.”
The politically religious politician is notorious for embezzlement, and being partial to his hangers-on and fighting political accountability. Victims of the politically religious politicians may blame faith to which they mistakenly attribute all misdemeanours.
The Sheikh who once campaigned against secularism is now committed to leading people astray because he wields political and economic power.
Somalia is ruled by a clique bound by an agreement to steal from public coffers and compete on building houses in foreign countries whereas Somali citizens are grappling with a catalogue of problems caused by poor leadership and embezzlement.
The future of Somalia is threatened by an alliance that combines religion, commerce and politics, who forced a large number of Somali youths to immigrate.
Somali youths constitute 75% of the population, but they are hardly empowered because Somalia’s partners know that a country finds it difficult to recover from civil war if youths are denied life opportunities. That is why Somalia’s partners support the politically religious Somali politicians who no longer see religion as the means to grab power. Woe betide Somalia!
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